conjectured that at the break-up of the Somra power

It may be conjectured that at the break-up of the Somra power a section of the

tribe, headed by their chief Doda, allied itself with the Baloches, who were then
in Mekran and in the mountains adjoining Sindh, and, becoming gradually
assimilated, ultimately took their place as a Baloch tribe. Although they are
Baloches in appearance, and speak the Balochi language, it has always been
recognised that the Gurchanis (now the principal tribe of Dodai origin) are not of
pure blood. The Mirranis, another Dodai tribe long of great importance, whose
chiefs were for two hundred years Nawabs of Dera Ghazi Khan, are now broken
up and decayed.